CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



Residence of Henry Schroeder Near Sabin and Part of the Buildings — 



anced rations for the herd. 



Watts Siding is located at the farm, 

 and Mr. Schroeder 's potato cellar and 

 warehouse are on the south side of the 

 track. Grain and other produce are 

 loaded at the farm. The distance to 

 Moorhead is less than five miles, the 

 state road being only a quarter of a 

 mile north of the farm home. 



. Henry Schroeder is the father of the 

 potato industry in Clay county. He 

 began growing potatoes for Eastern 

 seed houses in 1893 and has made it 

 the leading feature of his farming op- 

 erations for over twenty years. In 

 1894 he shipped eight carloads of seed 

 potatoes to Eastern and Southern 

 points. Four years later the shipments 

 from Sabin aggregated 143 carloads, 

 most of them being shipped by Mr. 

 Schroeder. 



The 1914 acreage of potatoes, grown 

 by Mr. Schroeder, was 550 ; and com- 

 bined with his sons, was 800. The larg- 

 est number of bushels harvested by 

 them in one year was 110,000. In 1915 

 the combined yield of their several 

 farms was 86,000 bushels of potatoes. 



Mr. Schroeder has handled and 

 shipped as many as 400 carloads of 

 potatoes from one crop, but he now 



has so many other interests that he is 

 not shipping much of the product of 

 other growers. He raises Early Ohios, 

 Cobblers, Triumphs and White Ohios, 

 a new potato that he developed on one 

 of his Sabin farms. Several years ago 

 a few of the white potatoes were found 

 among the Early Ohios and these were 

 saved and planted the next year. In 

 1915 Mr. Schroeder produced 4,000 

 bushels of White Ohios. 



Mr. Schroeder was one of the pio- 

 neers in growing both red clover and 

 alfalfa and now makes it a rule to keep 

 100 acres seeded to each of these for- 

 age crops. Last year he made two cut- 

 tings of clover and timothy from old 

 potato ground that had been manured, 

 and the yield was five tons to the acre 

 — three and one-half from the first and 

 one and one-half from the second cut- 

 ting. He has a fine herd of Holstein 

 grades with one of the best bulls from 

 the herd of his son, E. C. Schroeder, 

 as sire. Apples for use on the farm 

 are mostly home grown in the orchard 

 east of the house. 



It has always been Mr. Schroeder 's 

 aim to produce the best of everything, 

 and he keeps his land in condition to 

 do this. His potatoes are the stand- 

 ard in the markets, and his grain is of 



